Re: which MTA to choose for a simple client?
On 2013-10-09, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br> wrote:
>
> No one mentioned the simplest way: mutt now supports sending via smtp
> directly:
> http://dev.mutt.org/trac/wiki/MuttFaq/Sendmail#HowdoIconfigureMutttousearemoteSMTPservertosendmail
Oh I didn't realize mutt couldn't do that like (al)pine (before now) and
needed a sendmail-like listening to transfer the mail to the smart host.
I also realize this previous state of affairs was to due to conformance
with a certain orthodoxy.
Everything's going to hell. The falcon cannot hear the falconer
(something like that, my Yeat's is rusty and I ain't gonna google it).
> Since it also supports IMAP accounts (and apparently even POP3), if
> you already have an email service (such as your ISP's, or a service
> like Gmail), you can use mutt alone. Just point it to your IMAP/POP3
> server to read emails, and the SMTP server to send emails.
Right, that's what I do with (al)pine. That's what I was trying to tell
the op in a nut(shell).
> In this respect, it works like any other mail client like Icedove,
> Evolution, etc.
>
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